Thank you for the kind words. Very happy you enjoyed the dialogue and art. My wife did all that, so this will be a really nice read for her. And hearing that the game had some urgency without feeling too stressful is especially nice, because that was something I really wanted to get right. Thanks for checking out the game <3

Thanks for sticking around through the load time, really glad you soldiered through it lol. And thanks for the kind words and for playing :)

Thank you, really glad you enjoyed it. Lol, hopefully you came out of it at least a little more qualified as a botanist after all that flower matchmaking. So glad to hear you enjoyed all the details we put into it!

And thanks for mentioning the controls too. There actually were a few different buttons set up for interacting and confirming depending on player preference, but the hints were pretty subtle down in the bottom left corner, so I can totally see how that got missed. Space was set up to work for both talking and confirming, and some of the other buttons overlapped too. I do think I missed making E behave consistently in some of those confirm cases, as well as not having Enter set up for interacting, so thanks for pointing those out. Definitely something I need to pay closer attention to in the future.

Really appreciate it, and thanks again for playing :)

Lol if only. That was really nice to read. Glad the art, music, gameplay, and all the varied dialogue landed for you. And I especially love hearing that you kept playing through more loops to find the visitors, because we had a lot of fun with those. Thanks a lot for taking the time to play through that all. Really appreciate it!

Thanks again for playing and for the feedback. I know we already talked a bit on Discord, but I still really appreciate you bringing up the tutorial readability. And yeah, some of the flower discoveries can definitely be a little stubborn because of how the combo logic works. In hindsight, I probably should've let roots overlap. Glad you stuck with it though, and really glad to hear it ended up being fun and cozy for you :)

This was really fun to read, thank you. Glad you enjoyed all the characters.

And yeah, the flower combination logic was actually something my wife and I went back and forth on a lot. She was actually in favor of allowing the later tiers to combine through root overlap, more like you described. I thought that might make things too easy, but looking back, I think that probably would've been the better call, especially for jam pacing and cutting down rerolls. We also talked about making higher quality matches and minigame performance to increase the likelihood of discovering the rarer flowers, which I still think would've been a fun way to handle it. Funny enough. Omnipotus was meant to be the final flower to get, but because of how the logic ended up working, he was actually easier than intended XD. The third-gen flowers ended up being tougher. 

Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback :)

As for the frog, yes, Aristotle longs for his past life of ignorance and innocence.

The shopkeeper love makes me happy lol. Really glad you enjoyed the little details we put in there and the music! My wife will be very happy to read the art compliment. Thanks for the kind words and for playing :)

This was such a nice comment to read, thank you. I'm really glad you enjoyed the flowers, visitors, and the matchmaking system. We had a lot of fun with Finus Omnipotus, and fun fact, that's one of the few flowers I came up with myself. My wife then brought it to life with the art, animations, and dialogue, so that one being called out specifically got a laugh out of me. She put a ton into the art and animation overall, so she'd be really happy to hear all of that too.

And yeah, I think that's fair on the shop stuff. The speed upgrades probably could have been cut. The flower refresh used to have a bit more purpose too, since earlier on we had 8 shared traits total, and there were a lot more cases where flowers just wouldn't have matches. But after playtesting, we cut it down because it was happening too often. The two traits that got removed were gym and pina colada haha. You're definitely right though, the refresh probably could've lived somewhere else outside the shop, like on a little wooden sign in the middle of the board or something.

Thanks again for playing and for such thoughtful feedback :)

Thanks! This was a really nice read. Glad you enjoyed all the little touches we added. My wife put so much into the art, and we both worked hard to make the game feel charming and full of details, so it means a lot to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks a lot for playing :)

Thanks a lot, glad the polish and flower art stood out to you. And sorry about the shop bug, I hadn’t run into that one myself. I’ll look into it. Thanks for playing and for letting me know :)